The big screen

5 stars for execution, 3 stars for some editorializing/slightly dated passages/stretches redundant with other Thomson books I read recently, 4 stars averaged out.

Any film lover would be well-served by picking this large-scale history of the medium. Super readable and personal without getting in the way of the actual meat and potatoes information.

A lot of blather about movies. As an example of how badly Thomson misses, he describes 2001 as “a numb elegy to advanced technology, the American space program...” Skip it.